Wednesday, March 27, 2013

“ I, like everyone, look at Nature and try to figure out how
it works.” (Edmund Storms)

I think over 99.99% of the
scientists agree completely with Ed-
this is their mission and mode of action. This is the essential scientific
approach, the way to discoveries and to knowledge. It is about the scientific
mentality and culture. A fast search will give definitions of the scientific
mentality as the following:

“Science is a body of knowledge wherein the
truths of physical world is ascertained or established on the basis of
verifiable and testable methods. Authority and beliefs have no place in
science. Scientific mentality is the mental process of thinking based on
science as defined above. Scientific methods are strictly objective.”

However, the real relationship between Mother Nature and Homo
discontentus ( a better name for Homo sapiens) is more complicated and it
always was much initiative coming from us humans. We have survived not only because
we are “wise”- “sapiens” without “faber” does not work.

Too long an introduction, you already knew this for ages at
least outside LENR.

The decisive factors for success include wisdom –
understanding the phenomena but perhaps even more boldness, skill, creativity,
patience, inventiveness, determination. Radical changes

LENR –the useful one, has to be invented, not discovered.

Here I remembered my favorite Bulgarian proverb, short in its
original language “ne pitai starilo, pitai patilo”- but a bit longer in
translation: “Don’t ask the old, but the one that has endured bad times.”Usually old people can give you good advise, but
young people who have experienced the same difficulties as you may help better It is about real experts and
authorities. If you want to solve a problem ask those who are solving it. It
happens that yesterday somebody has told me that “senior” means more ‘authority’
than ‘old’.

We still are at home in the Balkan
Peninsula; I have asked the opinion of Yiannis
Hadjichristos the leading scientist of Defkalion. He has told about a saying coming from ancient Greece "Συν Αθηνά και χείρα
κείνει" do not expect everything
from Athina (the goddess of wisdom) -the theory in our case- move your hands
also. Wisdom and hard work go together’

Yiannis also has emphasized that they have highlighted natural HENI-like
phenomena in their NIWeek and ICCF17 papers. However, all these natural
phenomena- that have inspired them are not controllable! They had to use
inventions (plural!) to create the controlled conditions within a specific
limited space and its environment.

“So we have to trick (cheat) nature to harvest the benefits. This
is what engineering (μηχανικη) literally means: trick the nature (or the
gods in ancient tragedy) to reach a desired outcome (the catharsis).”

What impresses me is the broadness of the real problem, Nature has to be
changed with due respect because we know Her bad temper and force, but without
mercy. BTW, pantheist thinking: I had the privilege to make two interviews with
my favorite Greek goddess Athena, one of
them is already published on this blog- it is about the causes of the Crisis. I
also had the unique privilege to discuss by e-mail with Cold Fusion’s greatest
supporter, Arthur C. Clarke his saying:”It may be that our role on
this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.” Perhaps
the creative powers of the humans are not limited directly by their wisdom. In
the case of LENR, this would be our salvation.

One issue more- if so many different inventions
are necessary to make the system work, then it is the time to remember the
Latin saying: “"hominem unius libri timeo"
meaning "I fear the man of a single book” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_unius_libri

Now I fear the man of a single LENR theory if he/she thinks it is a
complete explanation. Even the best theory explains only a part of the tamed
process. Nature and technology alike will punish the crimes against complexity
and interestingness.

In the very first issue of “Infinite Energy” (March-April 1995) I have
published a paper entitled inquisitively “Why Technology First?” The answer is
simple now: because there is no other way

for LENR.

My obituary will say, i.a.: “he had few ideas and limited answers, but
he was consistent, the answers were always the same”.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

The existence, world, nature, destiny, call it as you wish
in the secular language or in the languages of religions wants mainly or even
exclusively to be just interesting. In some cases, interesting is combined with
what is good for us humans, in other cases it is obvious that all those
super-entities do not care a bit about us.

Cold Fusion that celebrates today its 24th
birthday is a rather unhappy case and I have written really much about its negative
side and unlucky birth recently. Therefore I will not write a state of the
field report now I will just make a small exercise in positive thinking- asking
you to join and support me with your ideas.

My leading axiom that will generate km3 of
repulsion from many colleagues is this: the past and the future of LENR are
very disconnected (and have to be so!); the future cannot learn much from the
past and has to elaborate its own creative new solutions that do not appear in
the experience of the past. We have to separate from the past not cheerfully as
Karl Marx has suggested but professionally.

The correct vision of the field is mild myopia toward the
past and to be long-sighted toward the future. I predict we will go on new ways
soon. The past was great but sad; the future has to be pragmatic and very
inventive and happy. I honor, admire and respect the heroes of yesterday, our
martyrs, their wonderful altruism and idealism, the sacrifices, the great
efforts the sometimes superhuman resistance in very hostile circumstances. But
I also think that deep changes are necessary.

No more uphill battles! And, please no more infighting, we
had seen enough of bald men fighting for an old comb.

I confess that when I wanted to listen to a musical
illustration of the situation of our LENR usually I have used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL4HuUUenoQ In 1989 I could not imagine it will last so
much and it will go so badly and the dreams created by Fleischmann and Pons
will not be converted in an exiting reality in, say, 5-7 turbulent years.

The refrain of this “bye, dreams of glory, bye castles
(built) in air” makes me very sad. The idea of castles built in air is a kind
of metaphor of something that scares me, a dangerous departing

from of reality. But now, I know the dream of glory will
come back. It’s true it will come back for a true generation of readers.

It is not about forgetting our past, it is about re-thinking
it and adds to it what it was missing and to extract from it the values we have
not well understood.

What has started as Cold Fusion and it is today LENR –
mainly- has to suffer some metamorphoses in order to be viable indeed and to
fulfill,, achieve its historical aim to be a standard source of energy for
Mankind- perhaps the dominant one in, say, 15-20 years.

Let’s start a list of actions we have to make with courage
and determination if we want that the future should be quite different from the
past. I will ask you to add your ideas; this writing
will remain open and will be completed. Please help poor little LENR to grow up
and become a giant! Thank you!

Be very discontented with the situation of LENR, both the
outer and the inner state of facts. Convert this discontent in changes.

Therefore
theoretical disputes in LENR are more religious than scientific and only
experiments can and have to! decide. In the real word imagination is more
powerful than reality and the disputes are more intense than it can be
justified with data coming from planned and organized
experimental investigations.

Unfortunately
the experimental situation in the field is highly unreliable. No paper without
a metaphor- LENR is in a deep hole, stubbornly digging with shovels made of
palladium.

One star in the
constellation of LENR theories is the Widom Larsen theory; it is in a special
situation being under ferocious attacks of the other, say, mainstream, LENR
theorists.

For politicians
and parties I have found the correct inequation:

“If B is
worse than A, this does NOT mean that A is better than B”

More
symbolically; [B<A ≠ A>B]

Can you deny that this relation has elements of truth for LENR
theories too?

We have lists of LENR theories but no classifications from
the best to the worst. Some try to be as conformist possible some are more exotic but no one till now is the True One accepted
by everybody and applied in practice...

I have met Lew Larsen at the Marseille ICCF we both are shortsighted
and not hearing very well, so we had our places in the first row. My impression
about him was positive; anyway we have not discussed much. However I definitely
remember Lew was rather discontented with the situation of LENR- like me.
Discontent is the engine of problem solving and Lew has tried to explain the
problem in his own way...

Later I have learned he has a LENR company and that his collaboration
with Ed Storms did not went well- they know why.

Then the W-L theory has come with some new concepts but
quite

familiar for me because my good friend Hideo Kozima has
written many papers and two books about the role of neutrons in Cold Fusion.

Anyway I am not a theorist and not inerrant. (Who is?).

In my humble (really so) opinion the LENR community had an
exaggerated negative over-reaction to this theory. However some scientists and
researchers seem to like it and use develop and diversify it.

The journalist Steve Krivit became a convinced supporter of
the theory. Unfortunately he is a man with strong certainties and he seems to
consider the opponents of this theory (or even those who do not manifest
enthusiasm for it) as his personal enemies. Krivit’s radicalism is not useful
for the W-L theory. The same form of intolerance has damaged my 6+ years
friendship and excellent collaboration with Krivit because I am not convinced
that Andrea Rossi is just a total fraud who has invented nothing and his dozen
demos were complete fakes engineered for inactive Ni cores. He cannot accept my
doubts. The last thing LENR needs is internal conflicts. I have told this many
times, we are in trouble we need solidarity not hostility...

If the Widom Larsen theory is the worst of all, history will
show it and it will be forgotten. My guess is that it actually has its place in the complex sequence of phenomena that is LENR+ or New
Wave LENR.

Our community of theorists will publish a special issue of
Infinite Energy dedicated to LENR theories. I hope Jean-Paul Biberian the coordinator of this issue will invite Lew Larsen to tell
what

he thinks about how LENR works- especially when it works as
expected- expected for a very long time.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Things change, that can be both excellent (e.g. when it is
about progress (it is pleonastic to say “technological progress”; do you know
other kind of real progress?) and a catastrophe e.g. when you realize that
aging is not reversible. This time it is a change that simply makes me a bit
sad.

My intention was to tell you about “reverse motivation” You
are going to work in an awfully difficult field of research, I cannot convince
you it will be fine and glory is waiting for you. On the contrary, just because
it will be so bas, you who are special, a great personality in becoming, you
will insist to work for LENR.

Please discover yourself reverse motivation. The best
tools to explain this are the demotivational posters from http://www.despair.com really good
managerial black humor and this site which I have used and admired for more
than 10 years needs subscription now. I hope you will manage to do it.

I wanted to ask you, young colleague, to read first of all,
the two most recent writings at this Blog. I am complaining about the past, but Axil shows the way to the future, your way.

I am also sending you three lists all coming from the fine
Cultural Offering Blog to which I have subscribed with enthusiasm- it is really
cultural in the best sense of this word. The author/owner Kurt Harden was so
generous that he included Ego Out to the list of “25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make
You Smarter” and I am reading the other 24 as much as I can. (I almost hear a
whisper: “Alzheimer retardant, does it work?”

I advice you to discover the author of this writings,
Nicholas Bate. The word excellent was created for him too.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Now is the right time for LENR to emerge as a
cutting edge nano-technology application that can be supported by an upcoming
robust research and development nano-toolset.

Unfortunately, cold fusion has arrived decades too early when science and its
practitioners were not ready or disposed to either explain or understand such a
complex nano-process.

LENR has to dig itself out of a deep hole of public ridicule that this early
discovery, ill-timed over-hyping, and underperformance as caused.

Furthermore, there is another unfortunate situation that also should be
mentioned which has greatly retarded any progress in LENR research and its
acceptance by the general public.

This inopportune happenstance is the ill-fated sense of competitive threat that
LENR poses for the people who make their living from R&D and production of
nuclear energy as well as the people who work to research the standard model of
particle physics.

Their ultraconservative approach to their work lends them to apply to LENR the
same sclerotic principles that block any progress in their own technology.

When the general public looks for an opinion from the nuclear or plasma physics
community to help them formulate their judgment on the feasibility and the
promise of LENR, this myopic public resource is ill-informed way beyond their
expertise level to do so.

What LENR has lacked since it first emerged onto the scene in 1989 is the
precise control required to make it understandable, reproducible, testable,
reliable, powerful, and useful.

The emerging first generation of LENR pioneering applications have
revealed that fabrication and control of nickel nano-structures are basic to
these rudimentary reactor systems to advance onto the threshold of industrial
process heat applications.

LENR is recently proven to be more rightly a nano-technology rather than a
nuclear one.

There has been an accelerating development of allied nano-technologies that can
be applied to move LENR into the mainstream of robust industrial application.

Among these latest developments is the mastery of optical meta-surfaces that
comprise a class of optical Meta-materials with a reduced dimensionality that
is exhibiting exceptional abilities for controlling the flow and manipulation
of heat and electrons at the nano-level. These new capabilities achieve the
anomalously large photonic density of quantum mechanical states that underlie
the industrial LENR process.

Illustrative of this point, I have just run across an article that explains
some of the new nano-technologies that can be applied to advance process in
LENR.

This article explains how optical nanophotonic circuits might harness clouds of
electrons called "surface plasmons" to manipulate and control the
routing of heat and light in devices far too tiny for conventional lasers.

Such a planar photonics technology is expected to facilitate new physics and
enhanced functionality for devices that are distinctly different from those
observed in their three-dimensional Meta Material counterparts.

As a result, this technology will enable new applications in imaging, sensing,
data storage, quantum information processing, and solar energy harvesting and
energy LENR production/harvesting.

New optical technologies using "meta-surfaces" capable of the
ultra-efficient control of electromagnetic radiation at the sub-wavelength
levels are nearing commercialization, with potential applications including
advanced solar cells, thermo-electric generation, quantum computers,
telecommunications, sensors and microscopes.

The recent progress in optical meta-surfaces can address the major issues
hampering the full-scale development of Meta-Material technology, a technology
that is central to the advancement of LENR to the next level. This capability
includes cost-effective fabrication, and facilitation of challenging system integration
issues.

The studies of new, low-loss, tunable plasmonic materials—such as transparent
conducting oxides, nano-fibers, and inter-metallics—that can be used as
building blocks for meta-surfaces will complement the exploration of smart
designs and advanced energy and charge collection and switching capabilities.

This progress in meta-surface design and realization will lead to novel
functionalities and improved performance and may result in the development of
new types of ultrathin meta-surface LENR designs with unparalleled
nano-properties and efficiencies.

These new designs would also be compatible with planar, low-cost manufacturing.
In turn, these advances will lead to ultrathin devices over a wide range of
sizes and capacities with unprecedented functionalities.

The next generation of LENR devices will extract energy from the depths of the
atom and directly convert it into electricity at high efficiency without the
encumbrance and constraints of thermodynamics needed when producing power from
steam.

More like a battery then a reactor, the size of a LENR power module will be
scalable over a wide range to power devices as small as cellphones and tablets
to building toward very large reactors that can power apartment blocks and
sports stadiums.

The future of LENR is ever brightening as the new nano-technologies burst onto
the scene. All that is required to make this future possible is a
rethinking of the old timeworn attitudes, prejudices and misapplications that
have plagued LENR from the day of its birth.

During my 75+ years of life I have developed a form of
phobia from history, a fear that it will repeat what it was the worst of it,
and I consider that trying too hard to use some historical data for problem
solving, is actually delaying or killing the Solution. The bad memes of history
never die. The invisible strings with
which the “leaders” are manipulating us are coming from the past. Thinking and
feeling as somebody who lived in a small country: “Geography
is destiny, history is a prison” Thinking about many
irrational things from the present: “The 21st Centuryis the 12th,
resurrected” At least for and due to billions of human beings. The cult of
History is used mainly for doing harm, for kindling the fires of hatred and
violence, for demonstrating superiority above the enemies i.e. those who have
an opposite view of the shared history or just are different...

Old
books, old ideas, old stories have some value for solving the problems of the
present/future but a rather limited value. Why? It is an unavoidable, cruel Law
of Nature and of knowledge that says: “NOTwhat
we know, but what we don’t know is more important for solving the problem.” The validity of this
law is proportional, not with the importance of the problem, but with the extent
of damage made by NOT solving it. Surely, you will find examples for this rule
in your own professional experience.

Plus, due to the
world’s inherent interestingness, historical analogies are interesting but of
limited use and persuasion power.

OK, if you still invest
hopes in history instead of looking it with objectivity and with realistic
sympathy and gratitude for some exceptional positive personalities who
individually have failed but have contributed to the general progress- yes, in
this case feel free to read and meditate upon these quotations:

Its very existence was
aggressively denied, on theoretical basis. One of Cold Fusion’s archenemies,
Prof John Huizenga said about the Three Miracles necessary to be explained if
Cold Fusion does exist: Coulomb barrier penetrated, no neutrons and no gammas
or X-ray resulting from fusion. Obviously miracle is just a mild euphemism for
impossible. Huizenga was unable to realize that Cold Fusion is different.
History will pardon him because Cold Fusion, now LENR is very, very different
from Hot Fusion- some of us have started just now to understand its newness.

Miracle was a euphemism,
but so are the Three Marks of Cold Fusion. The field had an especially bad
luck- it is about curses, stigmata, uninvited
fairies. We have already told about two of these bad marks:

First, Cold Fusion was
discovered by geniuses having perhaps the worst profession/specialty-
electrochemists and actually electrochemistry actually has not much to do with
these new phenomena

Second, Cold Fusion was
discovered in the worst possible place, with such parents its
cradle was an electrolytic cell, i.e a collection of impurities in water,
working at low temperatures. The metal chosen, palladium is the one in which
bulk and surface compete desperately for deuterium; I have written many
negative CF odes to it.

Third - everybody knows that:”There
is nothing more powerful than an idea whosetime has come." Victor
Hugo CF has obtained a lot of interesting scientific results but nothing
good for a technology, it can be characterized more by an antinomy of
“powerful” I have seen tens of bright theories failing to explain LENR. Neither
theory, nor experiments were able to make the process reproducible or to scale
it up. I have learned from Piantelli about the decisive role of nanotechnology-
that was not well developed in 1989. Defkalion has demonstrated the magnificent
complexity of the useful (HENI) process. Recently, my friend Axil has revealed
clearly the third bad mark- CF was discovered before its time, when both the
understanding and the tools for solving its development problem were available.

Very soon we will get answers,
hopefully positive to the two trillion dollars question: is LENR an idea whose
time has come?

Let’s re-think the history of
Cold Fusion and open a new, productive chapter of it.

It is about the mottos of
the coming International Conferences on Cold Fusion; a critique of the motto chosen
for ICCF-18 and a proposal for the next conference.

ICCF-18 Conference,http://iccf18.research.missouri.edu/ describes
its raison d’etre in this way:

I find this as self-limiting,
out-focused, even “thinking in a box” in some extent. Some reasons:

a) the Scientific Method can be
applied well only when the experimental results are of high quality and
reliable; the organizer of the Conference has spoken recently about a success
rate of 20% the lower Pareto number- in PdD experiments,

b) recent studies as well as
information coming from neighboring fields as HTSC, ZPE etc. are suggesting
that not all scientific concepts necessary for a science of the phenomena had
been discovered or developed up to the level of scientific explanations; see
e.g. Nanoplasmonics.

d) We need to accept that the
complexity, dynamicity, multiplicity, diversity of the LENR phenomena are much
greater than we usually think. Specifically, we have to distinguish between
LENR (weak, sporadic, ephemeral, unusable because it cannot be scaled up) and
LENR+ (high intensity, high energetic density, long duration, controllable via high
quality know-how.

e) UNDERSTANDING is actually a
means not an aim, the great original promise of Cold Fusion was a source of
energy not some exotic phenomena;

f) ANOMALOUS is a dangerous, false self-defeating word- to
be avoided! The anomalous of today is the basic science of tomorrow; however
this should not happen in the same way as how time converts paradoxes in
dogmas.

The last 4 words from the motto are OK, I think;

Something has to be changed, after a dozen days we will
enter the 25th year of technological stagnation of our field.

ICCF-19

ICCF-19 will take probably in Europe,
perhaps in Italy.
If it will be the conference of paradigm change, a good motto will be:

”Solving the useful heat source
problem.”

But perhaps the best motto will be no motto at all, just
good, serious professional experimental results reported and clearly explained
on a causal basis...

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Cold
Fusion/LENR is of very high worth, is the very key of the Energetic
Renaissance, therefore- it is clear as day- that It
has beaten us with the force of an 800 pound gorilla. The result is that 24
years after the advent of the problem, we do not understand it well and we are
not able to scale it up to the commercial level of an energy source. Actually,
the situation is much more complicated than that, both in the negative and the
positive sense. We are at the border of a new world, we do not understand our
situation well and we must RE-THINK everything we believed we know. You
must learn that the ability to re-think is vital (at least in the realm of
LENR). We must re-think – with respect but with no mercy for the old data,
facts, ideas and memes.

Actually,
why are we in this rather bad situation? I have told it many times clearly,
this is my personal opinion, because we are trying the impossible, squaring the
circle, walk on air, bending the steel with our hand- finding a simple short
actionable explanation for a complex, long sequence of events. Worse than
introducing a square peg in a round hole. Who, except humble reality will
believe me that this is the crux of the problem? A theorist who is not in love
with his own theory, created by himself, is not a pur-sang, genuine theorist.

For
a radical, deep, bold re-thinking of LENR we need powerful tools and an especially
strong willpower...

Now
I will tell you about one of these tools, one very efficient

and
immensely popular- the METAPHOR. As everybody, I was searching, using and
abusing metaphors all my life, however more instinctively and not taking them
too seriously. Then I had a revelation.

It
has happened before the Internet era; at our local library I came upon this PhD
Thesis: "Hyperknowledge and Continuous Strategy in Executive Support
Systems” by Hannu Vanharanta, AboUniversity. Finland 1995.

This
Thesis, a high level strategic management opus has a short but crucial part
about the functions of the metaphor in management.

“To
describe an infinitely complex reality (only) by words is a difficult task and
therefore the metaphor plays an essential role in thinking. A successful
metaphor as “windows” for computers is a powerful means for communication and
understanding.

In management, the metaphors have 4 functions,
they are:

- expressive,
throwing a new light on the target domain;

- exegetic,
trying to describe and to interpret complexity;

- explanatory,
explaining for predicting

- exploratory,
suggesting new directions and activities for search.

I
was very impressed and this fragment of the thesis became a

strong
personal meme for me. The effect was enhanced by a beautiful metaphor authored
by Piet Hein that I have read the same day, this one:

The
Paradox of Life

a
bit beyond perception's reach

I
sometimes believe I see

that
life is two locked boxes, each

containing the other's key.

I
have started to use consciously metaphors as a tool for problem solving and for
deep understanding, as an antidote of the sometimes overwhelming complexity I
met in many places. I included them in my life long learning programs. I have
collected them and I have subscribed to some newsletters dedicated to metaphor
as http://www.annemiller.com/archives.asp

You,
my dear young friend have to discover the richness and enormous potential of
the metaphors, starting with their definition and basic features- for example
in the Wikipedia:

Expand
your thinking and change your life (if you can) with Metaphorology: http://www.metaphorology.com/I wish to change my life, to be fifty again and to
join the team of Defkalion but I have doubts that even myriads of smart metaphors
can help me. My last personal metaphor will be: smelling the flowers from the
side of the roots. But this is not urgent.

I have collected
metaphors for subjects as: life, death, brain, learning, Internet, business,
the Crisis, blog(s) etc. But in meantime the Web has grown tremendously and now
you can find the best metaphors for all concepts instantly.

You will discover step by
step the world of metaphors, old and new, popular and abused (as the light at
the end of the tunnel) and you will have the vision of an enormous swarm of
useful, helpful locusts.

However let’s “return to our
muttons”, that is to LENR, I try to teach you applied
metaphorology for problem solving not theoretical just for PKM. I have already
published an entire metaphor story when I understood the general situation in
the field, its real history and the most probable perspective. http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/03/metaphor-story-of-lenr.html This is a 1 year old paper but
I would not retract anything from it.

This came in
combination with the Pdisaster idea actually hitting two sacred
cows of LENR between the horns- i.e the possibility of creating an elegant
simple, highly mathematical theory of the phenomenon and the idea that the
cradle and the car of LENR will be made from the same noble metal palladium.

Opera as
metaphor of LENR

This is a first
attempt to use the functions of the metaphors in management (and in life and in
science) to deduce some truths and to build a strategy for LENR. Please
consider it what it is- a start.

Expressive:

Being an opera
means being complex, composed of parts, multi-sequential, a difficult teamwork.
Opera has action and needs a leader- LENR happens at useful levels and in
controlled modes only in a very well adjusted combination of parameters (a lot
of them) by strictly respecting some rules that have to be discovered and known
by the participants. Once learned this lesson and rehearsed with intelligence
and skill, the efforts become invisible and everything seems easy, simple at
the surface and:”flowing” naturally. The opera is as the motto and the title
of: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2011/03/explaining-opera-music-of-all-noises.html
says it is very expensive; LENR on its turn is will consume huge quantities of
intellectual and creative energy before being everyday global technological
reality, a great source of energy...

An opera is the
result of cooperation, but its action is based on confrontation between Good
and Evil (or two evils), love and hatred, past and future. It is trial and
error. It is un-moderated cruel fighting, death, murder and suicide are used
and abused. This does not fit well for LENR, however a prioritary task is to
discover the hidden enemies that can kill or diminish the functionality of the
LENR generators.

The opera has
acts and scenes and all are components of an artistic Whole; it is not possible
to reduce the opera to the most dramatic scene or the most popular aria as “I
have broken through the Coulomb Barrier” because there is much more at the
stake. It seems any LENR opera has three acts: the first- pre-nuclear, the
second nuclear but in a very special and strange way and the third post-nuclear
when good and warm things happen.

The success of
LENR depends on deep understanding and wise action i.e. much more than a
theory.

Exegetic:

The opera
metaphor has the potential to describe better than any collection of facts and
ideas- the reality of LENR. When you understand the real role of metaphors in
thinking you are aware of the “metaphor of the metaphor”. The metaphor of a
healthy good metaphor is a living, changing, growing, improving, learning, developing
entity not a static, invariable bureaucratic one. The relation between the
subject of the metaphor and the object to which is compared cannot be
standardized for all cases, being a relation in multi-layers form, more layers
both in space and in time comprising the problems, the solutions, the history
of the composition, the world-wide debut, the best performances. At first
sight, the opera metaphor has three inherent seemingly destructive drawbacks
that would make anybody less stubborn than me to abandon it immediately:

b) serious opera is a highly pessimistic, negative and
depressive art, most operas are tragedies death is always there and its victims
are young, lovable people. It seems some Twin
Peaks principle (the Evil is indestructible and
always wins) rules in the world of operas. There are a few cases where the
opera is not so damned realistic and has a happy ending for the main heroes,
usually after removing or sacrificing some victims; Conclusion: we have to find
an opera with happy end!

c) for the actual LENR opera (or operas?) there are only separate and mutually
incompatible fragments of the libretto and the entire music still has to be
composed. There is information about some rather simple primitive LENR melodies
composed by Nature. However music is the highest form of art, while sculpture
(as Michelangelo teaches us, works by
removing the unnecessary parts of the marble, music cannot be created by removing
noise, it has to be created from scratch. Much more work than for a single
song. Conclusion: the genuine opera metaphor of LENR has to be created!

These are difficult problems, and we have to use a lot of
scipiology, the high art of converting disasters in triumphs and drawbacks in
competitive advantages- in order to keep and develop our favorite metaphor.

Explanatory

As you could see, there are many unknown unknowns regarding
the LENR opera. It is about love that’s certain and the lovers need a very
strong love potion that’s also for sure. However, amazingly we don’t know
who the lovers are! There are two popular operas centered on love potions:
“L’elisir d’amore” by Gaetano Donizetti and “Tristan and Isolde” by Richard
Wagner. Both are useless for our metaphor. In the first the potion is
manufactured by a Dr Dulcamara, an itinerant snake oil merchant and such
persons are “non-grata” in the LENR opera. The second, described in one
sentence as: “They love each other and they both die." is eliminated due its bad ending. LENR will
have no ending at all, but will become an opera seria in endless series, I predict.
You have to remember that Defkalion, which has the best LENR (they call it
HENI) scenario has stated that even a ternary love potion is not sufficient to
“make hydrogen more reactive and nickel more receptive”. I can accept that in
the original Pd based system it is about a deuterium loves deuterium
non-straight system because this will not become a technology. (I bet!) However
Defkalion’s results show that something very complex happens-
lets it express with open-mindedness- kind of GruppenSex of the chemical
elements. I think that everything is better than some form of the H + H
reactions predicted e.g. by Ed Storms theory, Beyond any operas I think that
Nature does not admit constrains and in different systems behaves very
differently. On the technological level, I hope there will be tested
successfully many precious transition metals besides nickel and Defkalion et al
will be able to convert complexity
to completeness, dynamicity to immediacy, diversity to diversification

Exploratory

As in so many occasions in R & D we must
accept a compromise, a non-ideal opera as more proximal metaphor for LENR as it
is today. It has to be. as already shown a popular opera with a happy ending. I
don’t understand much of Mozart\s Magic Flute (“Protege of mad Freemasonry sect
marries abducted Princess”). Liberation operas as Beethoven’s Fidelio or
Mozart’s “Abduction of the Seraglo” do not fit at all to LENR and carry too
simple messages.

Then I have eventually found the “solution”:
Turandot by Giaccomo Puccini. The story is very idiotic but much better than,
say, Edgar by the same author or Verdi’s “Il trovatore” having librettos wit
negative IQ... Turandot, in one sentence “In ancient China, a
princess challenges suitors with riddles until a mysterious prince arrives and
offers her a challenge to guess his true name.”

This opera is a good metaphor and the crazy, frigid,
revengeful princes is a sub-metaphor of LENR’s basic problem... Turandot has
asked only 3 riddles, our Calafs have to answer much more, all the time. The
finale of the opera is wonderful exactly what will happen to LENR. Turandot
(problem) is brought back to normality; Turandot the symbol of one main
component learns the infinite power of love. Calaf, the genuine researcher is
triumphant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4
He says: "Vanish, o night! Fade, you stars! Fade, you stars! At
dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win! "

Something like this will happen with LENR soon. However, as you
know, when life imitates art, it always adds some interesting complications.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

One thing I love about my closest friends is that they always prove to know things about me which are obviously true, no matter how much I believe that I manage to keep them locked and hidden deep inside my soul. Whenever I hear them saying those things to me, it reminds me of my childhood, getting caught snooping around in a special place where my parents used to hide the "goodies". Usually my mother somehow knew when I was checking on the 'treasure place', and she always had a special smile when looking away, allowing me to save face...

I knew where delightful surprises were hidden and liked to check on them regularly. I would just take them out, make sure of their integrity and put them back. I knew that I could not subtract and eat any of them until they were officially and lovingly given to me. Still, the knowledge of them being stashed in a safe place, as well as the anticipation of the moment when they will be given to me, always gave me comfort and a sense of security. The reward was safely deposited within my reach, all I had to do is have patience and behave properly, in order to gain access to the goodies when the time was right.

What my friends have revealed to me recently is that fear is a natural part of someone's life - mine in particular was the topic. I often think of myself as being rather fearless, as I do not have a problem with tackling conflict and getting to the root of what I believe is truthfull and reasonable to tackle.

What came as a surprise to me was however the understading that I tend to put my worries to silence exactly by this active way of approaching problems heads on. I believe the idea that 'the best cure is prevention' is familiar to most people. I seem to live by this phrase, respectively feel a need to asses potential future problems in order to address them before they actually pop up. Sometime this translates into literally preventing the future to happen, whenever I believe a bad turn is about to hit. However it may happen that bad things need to be allowed for a while, just as an intermediary way towards improvement. Therefore, one may also stop nice things from coming true in the process of preventing bad things to happen.

I am definitely not alone with this dillema. This is a basic survival and self-protection instinct, but this does not mean that change cannot be triggered in one's life. Would it be a better way to live? Accept the worries and just alternate the reaction to them? Sometimes act and prevent, other times react and correct, and others just ignore and go on with the flow.

I have no answer for you tonight. Worries are natural, therefore we should welcome them in our life, just as we welcome hunger, thirst, nervousness or hope. Worries are a mix between state of mind, soul and stomach, helping us staying aware of how smallish is the part we play in the general order of our universe.

Our future is becoming our past, with every present moment which we experience. And thus our worries, hopes, dreams and fears are gradually turning into feelings, events and reactions, and then become experience, with a reasonable mix of nice memories and regrets. Those become then the basis for our new worries, hopes, dreams and fears and so on ... It seems that we keep on experiencing similar challenges until we find a way to turn regrets into memories and fears into hopes.

Let's look upon the future with a mix of worry, anticipation and faith in our ability to deal with whatever tomorrow will bring, either by ourselves or together with our true friends.

Monday, March 4, 2013

The advent of LENR+ has caused a cognitive earth-quake in
the world of LENR. This reaction may seem slow for the witness but history,
which has learned many strange things from itself, will judge it probably as
normal. It depends on who will write this history.

This week for example, Ed Storms who wrote the best LENR
reviews ever, has presented an up-to-date variant of his own theory and has
emphasized the holistic nature of the process:

“All parts of the model must work together as a
logicalwhole. Each part is
essential for the process to be consistent with what is observed.”

Here comes a great question: how many parts? We are steadily learning that there are more
parts we have imagined. In 1991, I was thinking about 3 features topology,
nature, mechanism of Cold Fusion, however admitting recognizing that each of
these are actually not simple at all and have to be sub-divided in space and in
time. I was taught lessons of complexity by Piantelli, Defkalion and recently
by our colleague Axil who knows a lot about domains of physics and nanosciences
that I am not able to grasp, to evaluate, to think professionally about, to
work with, Anyway, the hard study of Axil’s writing and comments on my blog have
helped me to understand that LENR is NOT like a song with say, melody, lyrics,
rhythm. Take my all favorite song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c3_o_Rqwrg

or so many other wonderful songs from all the corners of
this small planet, I confess I have tried to make a list but I could not stop
so I had to apply the cut-the-Gordian-Knot method but at least I have enjoyed a
portion of good music.

But these do not work and in the mirroring metaphor LENR+ is
much more than the love story of Hydrogen and Nickel with no baritone
interfering. It is a basso, Rydberg helping and lots of other roles decisive,
secondary, positive, negative moving around singing

their mode. A good conductor, a creative opera director,
first class

orchestra- all have to help the talented singers. It is
useless to try to deepen this analogy. We will listen to some very good LENR
operas soon. One of them is about a hero named Plexciton and the action (wild!)
takes place in a country named Nanoplasmonics, we will see resonances,
amplifiers other interesting things.

It is possible the last act of the opera will be about
something weird

as zero-point energy, space-squeezing or vacuum mining. This
morning I have received very interesting news from LENR’s cousin

who has written an opera entitled “Extreme Cavitation”

I think it will be very useful to discuss with this cousin
about operas, his libretti are different, his music is perhaps too noisy, but
he has ideas. Some reasons to seriously discuss with Nanospire- see below.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

These writings
are about what young LENR researchers have to learn- in my opinion- on a
meta-professional level i.e. beyond physics chemistry, materials science,
nano-science and nanotechnology in order to effectively contribute to the
flourishing of the coming New Energy Era.

There are many
vital things you are not taught in the school, but you will need in life- forms
of contact with reality and I am starting with managerial culture the pragmatic
philosophy of the present.

classifications;
this is a very necessary but not sufficient tool. The taxonomic skill becomes
very visible via the logical structure and fluency of publications papers,
reports, books. It gives the decisive first impression.

Two
essential concepts.

TeamBuilding

Based on his
personal experience, especially at Defkalion Green Technologies, Yiannis
Hadjichristos has called our attention to the fact that in such an extreme case
of difficulty, even the greatest genius cannot make much without an excellent,
harmonious efficient team .LENR is a peak of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, it
needs first class experts in very diverse domain,

Lots of people
able to work fine together. This idea has to be a recurrent leit-motif of our
Course!

Personal
Knowledge Management

This paragraph is not contradicting but
complementing the fo5mer: individuals are more concrete and quantifiable and
measurable and controllable than teams, at least in principle. Exactly as
Monsieur Jourdain makes prose
without knowing it, we all make knowledge management, a great generous concept
that includes management of ignorance, too. PKM has an advanced. superior form,
personal branding, a sign and measure of your personality and greatness, see
for example:

It
tells very interesting thing things, it speaks about FLOW a concept
introduced by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the superior, almost ecstatic pleasure
of superior intellectual work. The ancient Greeks have used KAIROS, time
with high value as opposed to CHRONOS for this state of spirit. Please
do a serious search for FLOW and KAIROS. Geniuses are happy and
their work makes them so.

I don’t think anybody has the slightest doubt that young Einstein
would be the leader of LENR research today; theory of relativity and his other
discoveries being already here he would solve our problems brilliantly. We are
missing him, it will last a bit more, however LENR is good hands, you will see.
Uncle Albert, sleep well and dream about infinite energy!

Now suppose, my young reader is a fine talented researcher
however not able to go over 6.5 on the Richter scale of intellectual
earth-quakes; he still can become a fine expert by hard work. Here are the
instructions:

The solution is here and it remains invisible for those who
take the decisions; this happens many times. Read please my Pdisaster
paper, the poisoning hypothesis is here, it explains why PdD is unmanageable
and despite this the idea is ignored.